[pacman-dev] tar/bsdtar switch

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 11:29:20 EDT 2007


On 7/15/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/13/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So we revised makepkg so it doesn't rely on gnutar any longer...any
> > > one want to do the same for the other tools, such as repo-add/remove,
> > > etc.?
> >
> > To make it easier - what did you have to change? What are the common
> > things we've been using that are gnu extensions?
>
> Ha- probably not that much. I didn't mean for this email to sound
> monumental. s/tar/bsdtar/g will probably get most of it. I don't think
> we used any GNU specific extensions.
>
> What we did to makepkg:
> http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=24c41f5190974e68444466d0d8563dbe9ab06768;hp=5a3b59583740c033a5e27b61c3c38bebfd580acc
>
> -Dan
>

Here we go pretty easy (although it needs testing):
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=66b09410b4da950d4be95128333128fdb2658b3c

-Dan




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